So, Ludum Dare #20 is over, and voting has started. I intended to write a post where I sum up my thoughts about my own performance.<\/p>\n
But first; I want to applaud this community, for being so warm. People are encouraging, and the admins do not accept trolling. Everything is very well organized, and I can’t really see what can be done better. This guarantees for my intent to participate again next LD.<\/p>\n
About my own performance;<\/p>\n
What went wrong?<\/p>\n
I found quite a few bugs in my own basecode, that did cost a lot of time. This is a direct consequence of the basecode being made FOR Ludum Dare, and not being tested on any other real projects.<\/p>\n
Basecode lacked some features that would speed up the development. Asset management, a camera, sprite-position correctioning (to be able to easier enter doors when missing them slightly), dialogue system, a standard set of good collision detection algorithms, and probably much more that I can’t recall at once. These are all things that I intend to fix before LD21.<\/p>\n
A direct consequence of this shows in my source code, as a great pile of doodoo.<\/p>\n
What went well?<\/p>\n
I started drawing, and things turned out much better than I expected. I even had an animated main character that worked out decently well – he didn’t get to have an attack animation, though.<\/p>\n
I did manage to dedicate the time to do this.<\/p>\n
I did finish, and the game is beatable. And I’m very happy for that.<\/p>\n
Can I do better? Yes I can, just check out my performance on LD21.<\/p>","time":"May 2nd, 2011 9:08 am","title":"Self-evaluation: Cheese Hunter"}